Author: Alexa Coughlin

The establishment of the United Nations headquarters is one of the accomplishments completed during the Cold War. In 1946, the United Nations officials decided to construct the headquarters, after the League of Nations failed to protect the United States from World War II conflicts.[1] Zipp acknowledges how the construction of the UN Headquarters will “become …

Another defense that was used to protect soldiers and civilians from the Cold War hostilities was Fort Tilden, which is in the Queens borough of New York (40°33’42.2″N 73°53’43.2″W). This base was established in 1917, as a “harbor defense of New York.”[1] In the Fort Tilden guidebook, Christina Selvek wrote that Fort Tilden was originally …

In The Dying City: Postwar New York and Ideology of Fear, Brian Tochterman described how the Cold War dropped “flight” and “hysteria” like bombs upon New Yorkers as they struggle to organize their own “civil defenses” because of “overcrowding” of buildings and the lack of preparation to defend the city, however, it still offers “a …